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  1. What is Python's equivalent of && (logical-and) in an if-statement?

    Mar 21, 2010 · There is no bitwise negation in Python (just the bitwise inverse operator ~ - but that is not equivalent to not). See also 6.6. Unary arithmetic and bitwise/binary operations and …

  2. python - What exactly does += do? - Stack Overflow

    Jan 30, 2011 · I need to know what += does in Python. It's that simple. I also would appreciate links to definitions of other shorthand tools in Python.

  3. What is :: (double colon) in Python when subscripting sequences?

    Aug 10, 2010 · I know that I can use something like string[3:4] to get a substring in Python, but what does the 3 mean in somesequence[::3]?

  4. What does the "at" (@) symbol do in Python? - Stack Overflow

    Jun 17, 2011 · 96 What does the “at” (@) symbol do in Python? @ symbol is a syntactic sugar python provides to utilize decorator, to paraphrase the question, It's exactly about what does …

  5. What does -> mean in Python function definitions? - Stack Overflow

    Jan 17, 2013 · It's a function annotation. In more detail, Python 2.x has docstrings, which allow you to attach a metadata string to various types of object. This is amazingly handy, so Python …

  6. python - Is there a difference between "==" and "is"? - Stack …

    According to the previous answers: It seems python performs caching on small integer and strings which means that it utilizes the same object reference for 'hello' string occurrences in this code …

  7. What does colon equal (:=) in Python mean? - Stack Overflow

    Mar 21, 2023 · In Python this is simply =. To translate this pseudocode into Python you would need to know the data structures being referenced, and a bit more of the algorithm …

  8. syntax - What do >> and << mean in Python? - Stack Overflow

    Apr 3, 2014 · 15 The other case involving print >>obj, "Hello World" is the "print chevron" syntax for the print statement in Python 2 (removed in Python 3, replaced by the file argument of the …

  9. slice - How slicing in Python works - Stack Overflow

    Python slicing is a computationally fast way to methodically access parts of your data. In my opinion, to be even an intermediate Python programmer, it's one aspect of the language that it …

  10. What does the ** maths operator do in Python? - Stack Overflow

    From the Python 3 docs: The power operator has the same semantics as the built-in pow () function, when called with two arguments: it yields its left argument raised to the power of its …